Two central medieval fantasy elements are currently completely in their 1990's
tune and generally ignored in BatMUD: wands and scrolls

Wands used to be a tool of player killing and other instant PvP activities
(which I disapprove, of course) ...but nowadays they are just plain useless.

Scrolls are nice, but the last innovate thing was to utilize them as ship maps
(which is ingenious and I really like it)

Please, give some ambitious newbie wizard a go on those essential medieval
fantasy things. Give the fucker the right to totally recode them if that is
what it takes! Please, make wands and scrolls do something interesting in the
everyday play.

For example:

- make it possible to read a scroll at target (that is something other than
just yourself)
- make literate people able to write scrolls (...and who is literate in BatMUD
and who provides the paper, the leather or the papyrus? ..and how about making
literacy of magical languages an actual skill?)
- just make those wands NOT able to explode once you have two of them

I want to see that frail, yet mysterious, magician in the backrow actively
utilizing those two basic things, wands and scrolls, for the good of the
party... and who really wouldn't?

scrolls could be made of different materials...

papyrus catches on fire
parchment made from animal skins, hard to make
paper catches on fire
clay heavyest, might crumble if hit with hard force

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